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Cockroach
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• Phylum : Arthropoda
• Omnipresent, Omnivores and Nocturnal
• Body protected by Hard chitin
• Body divided into Head, Thorax and Abdomen
• Dorsal Plante : Tergum | Ventral Plate : Sternum
• Terga, sterna and pleura are joined by Arthrodial membrane
• Head is made up of 6 sclerites
• Chewing and biting type of mouthparts
• 10 segments are in the body of cockroach
• Wings are absent from Prothorax
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 • Anal styles distinguish male from female
• Gizzard contains circular teeth
• Hepatic caeca helps in secretion of digestive enzymes
• Malpighian tubules are present at the
junction of midgut and hindgut
• Open type of circulatory system
• 100 – 150 Malpighian tubules are present
• Blood cells – Haemocyte
• Circulatory fluid – Haemolymph
• Body cavity – Haemocoel
• Alary Muscles – Heat and circulation
• Air → Spiracle → trachea → tracheoles → body tissue
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 • Blood does not contain respiratory pigments
• Oxygen reaches tissue through tracheoles
• Exchange of gases by diffusion
• Circulatory and respiratory systems are not connected
• Tracheal respiration
• Malpighian tubules – Excretory organs
• Discharge their nitrogenous waste – Potassium urate
• Malpighian tubules + Nephrocytes + Urecose glands = Excretion
• Cockroach Brain : Supra oesophageal ganglia
• Mosaic vision
• 2000 ommatidia in each eye
• Spermatheca absent in Male
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 • Testes lies on each lateral side in 4th to 6th segment
• Male reproductive System - A pair of testes,
a pair of vas deferentia and a single ejaculatory duct
• Ovary – 8 ovarioles
• Spermatheca – 6th abdominal segment
• Female – accessory glands – collateral glands
• Number of fertilized egg in ootheca – 16
• The young ones of cockroach – Nymph
• Last nymphal stage has wing pads (fore wings and hind wings)

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